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Hellou I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS x86_64.

I previously had a TeXLive 2019 install on my machine via apt. But because of a problem with tlmgr (the Native TeXLive manager) concerning incompatible repository "versions", I wanted to perform a proper TeXLive install via the provided guide on https://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html.

So I sudo apt purge texlive-full in order to remove my TeXLive install and then proceeded with the quick-install from tug.org.

As it is now the install was successful (added everything into my PATH,MANPATH and INFOPATH). BUT the problem was still there.

Searching for a fix I ran the update-tlmgr-latest.sh script provided by my mirror https://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/ which is up to date (Last modified on 17-Apr-2022 02:43). But I still get

wenigwil@kubuntboo:Downloads$ sudo tlmgr --verify-repo=none update --all
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)

tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2019) is older than remote repository (2022).
Cross release updates are only supported with
  update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update
See https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details

with the emphasis on tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2019) is older than remote repository (2022).

, despite of

wenigwil@kubuntboo:Downloads$ tlmgr --version
tlmgr revision 63033 (2022-04-15 07:19:42 +0200)
tlmgr using installation: /usr/local/texlive/2022
TeX Live (https://tug.org/texlive) version 2022

I hope someone can help me with this issue.

Klaus Rucksack
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    Root has a different path to a normal user ... – Joseph Wright Jun 10 '22 at 11:17
  • @JosephWright thank you for pointing that out. But if I run tlmgr update --self --all the manager tells me that "You don't have permission to change the installation in any way, [...] Please run this programm as administrator.". – Klaus Rucksack Jun 10 '22 at 11:22
  • You need to add your TeX live install directory also to the sudo path. See https://superuser.com/q/927512 or https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/83191. – moewe Jun 10 '22 at 11:24
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    Try sudo <full-path-to>/tlmgr ... – Joseph Wright Jun 10 '22 at 11:24
  • In any case it seems that the apt purge did not succeed in uninstalling the complete apt-TeX live. If all paths are set up correctly that does not matter a great deal, but you may want to look into uninstalling all bits of the repository TeX Live. – moewe Jun 10 '22 at 11:25
  • @JosephWright that did work! – Klaus Rucksack Jun 10 '22 at 11:27
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    Issuing sudo /usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr update --self --all resulted in no error messages. It also stated that my package repository is verified which sounds great. – Klaus Rucksack Jun 10 '22 at 11:29
  • You could easily have installed TeX Live as a non-root user. Then you don't have to worry at all about the possibility of messing up your installation. See my tips here. – frougon Jun 10 '22 at 11:38
  • @frougon There's more information in my answer at https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/187379/ if somebody wants a step-by-step. There's a lot of other more general information about installing vanilla TL on that page, too. (My two pennyworth on non-root installation is just a detail.) – cfr Aug 01 '23 at 03:19
  • You may want to look into convincing your package manager to let you get rid of whatever package provides tlmgr. You also need to prevent it pulling TL packages back in if you install or update something like an editor. The best way is through the use of dummy packages, which depend on your distro. – cfr Aug 01 '23 at 03:24

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personal experience:

1] delete tlmgr ==> which tlmgr ; and delete it, including its link if any

2] reinstall TexLive2022 (select scheme at least i: infrastructure-only scheme)

neuro H
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    This is really not good advice. Deleting things your package manager installed is not a good idea. Take the time to manage the packages properly so this isn't necessary or, failing that, please don't recommend this to others. Aside from anything else, this will leave a bunch of other stuff in place and be undone whenever the package providing tlmgr gets updated. – cfr Aug 01 '23 at 03:22